You have been
warned: wear hats, slather your skin with sun screens,
the stronger the better, and don't forget to wear your
sunglasses to protect your eyes.

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.

We debunk these
myths, show you how important the sun is to proper
health, show you how water borne illnesses are wiped out
by UV Light, and go on to show you a safe and effective
therapy using UV Light. We've talked about this therapy
previously, Photoluminescence, but this time we go into
it even deeper and we list even more locations that offer it.
Additionally, we now have an American company making the
equipment. Tell your physician. It's safe, legal, and
more powerful than antibiotics and it boosts immune
function.

My name is
Jeannine Walston and I’m a 33-year-old dealing with
a brain tumor recurrence. I am currently receiving
immunotherapy treatments at the Medical Center of
Cologne in Germany.

I am a
professional writer and have been crafting “Blogs
from Germany” about my medical treatments and
healing journey. “Blogs from Germany” is an
informative, moving, and even shocking expose
highlighting divergent health care models, and what
comprises healing.

I invite you
to view “Blogs from Germany” at
http://www.healingfocus.org/germany.html.
Because I want to help educate others through my
story, I would be most grateful if you would
consider sharing my blogs with people who might
benefit from reading them.

A dear friend has
been battling cancer for a decade or more. Through a
grinding mix of chemotherapy, radiation and all the
other necessary indignities of oncology, he has lived
on, despite dire prognoses to the contrary.

My friend was the sort of college professor students
remember fondly: not just inspiring in class but taking
a genuine interest in them — in their studies, their
progress through life, their fears and hopes. A wide
circle of former students count themselves among his
lifelong friends; he and his wife have always welcomed a
steady stream of visitors to their home.

Though no one could ever prove it, I suspect that one of
many ingredients in his longevity has been this flow of
people who love him.

Research on the link between relationships and physical
health has established that people with rich personal
networks — who are married, have close family and
friends, are active in social and religious groups —
recover more quickly from disease and live longer. But
now the emerging field of social neuroscience, the study
of how people’s brains entrain as they interact, adds a
missing piece to that data.

The most significant finding was the discovery of
“mirror neurons,” a widely dispersed class of brain
cells that operate like neural WiFi. Mirror neurons
track the emotional flow, movement and even intentions
of the person we are with, and replicate this sensed
state in our own brain by stirring in our brain the same
areas active in the other person.

Mirror neurons offer a neural mechanism that explains
emotional contagion, the tendency of one person to catch
the feelings of another, particularly if strongly
expressed. This brain-to-brain link may also account for
feelings of rapport, which research finds depend in part
on extremely rapid synchronization of people’s posture,
vocal pacing and movements as they interact. In short,
these brain cells seem to allow the interpersonal
orchestration of shifts in physiology.

Such coordination of emotions, cardiovascular reactions
or brain states between two people has been studied in
mothers with their infants, marital partners arguing and
even among people in meetings. Reviewing decades of such
data, Lisa M. Diamond and Lisa G. Aspinwall,
psychologists at the University of Utah, offer the
infelicitous term “a mutually regulating
psychobiological unit” to describe the merging of two
discrete physiologies into a connected circuit. To the
degree that this occurs, Dr. Diamond and Dr. Aspinwall
argue, emotional closeness allows the biology of one
person to influence that of the other.

John T. Cacioppo, director of the Center for Cognitive
and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago,
makes a parallel proposal: the emotional status of our
main relationships has a significant impact on our
overall pattern of cardiovascular and neuroendocrine
activity. This radically expands the scope of biology
and neuroscience from focusing on a single body or brain
to looking at the interplay between two at a time. In
short, my hostility bumps up your blood pressure, your
nurturing love lowers mine. Potentially, we are each
other’s biological enemies or allies.

Even remotely suggesting health benefits from these
interconnections will, no doubt, raise hackles in
medical circles. No one can claim solid data showing a
medically significant effect from the intermingling of
physiologies.

At the same time, there is now no doubt that this same
connectivity can offer a biologically grounded emotional
solace. Physical suffering aside, a healing presence can
relieve emotional suffering. A case in point is a
functional magnetic resonance imaging study of women
awaiting an electric shock. When the women endured their
apprehension alone, activity in neural regions that
incite stress hormones and anxiety was heightened. As
James A. Coan reported last year in an article in
Psychophysiology, when a stranger held the subject’s
hand as she waited, she found little relief. When her
husband held her hand, she not only felt calm, but her
brain circuitry quieted, revealing the biology of
emotional rescue.

But as all too many people with severe chronic diseases
know, loved ones can disappear, leaving them to bear
their difficulties in lonely isolation. Social rejection
activates the very zones of the brain that generate,
among other things, the sting of physical pain. Matthew
D. Lieberman and Naomi Eisenberg of U.C.L.A. (writing in
a chapter in “Social Neuroscience: People Thinking About
People,” M.I.T. Press, 2005) have proposed that the
brain’s pain centers may have taken on a
hypersensitivity to social banishment because exclusion
was a death sentence in human prehistory. They note that
in many languages the words that describe a “broken
heart” from rejection borrow the lexicon of physical
hurt.

So when the people who care about a patient fail to show
up, it may be a double blow: the pain of rejection and
the deprivation of the benefits of loving contact.
Sheldon Cohen, a psychologist at Carnegie-Mellon
University who studies the effects of personal
connections on health, emphasizes that a hospital
patient’s family and friends help just by visiting,
whether or not they quite know what to say.

My friend has reached that point where doctors see
nothing else to try. On my last visit, he and his wife
told me that he was starting hospice care.

One challenge, he told me, will be channeling the river
of people who want to visit into the narrow range of
hours in a week when he still has the energy to engage
them.

As he said this, I felt myself tearing up, and
responded: “You know, at least it’s better to have this
problem. So many people go through this all alone.”

He was silent for a moment, thoughtful. Then he answered
softly, “You’re right.”

Daniel Goleman is the author of “Social Intelligence:
The New Science of Human Relationships.”

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The health of the
citizens of Salt Lake County, the State of Utah, the
United States of America and the entire world is
affected by this issue. Oxygen is essential to healthy
cellular metabolism (aerobic.) The oxygen which our
cells utilize for this aerobic metabolism is enabled by
bio available sulfur for transport across the cell
membrane. Sulfur, selenium and tellurium are the only
three oxygen transport minerals and sulfur has not been
bio available since 1954.

The mechanism is remarkably simple. Organic sulfur is
the mineral which enables the transport of oxygen across
the cell membrane by keeping that
membrane pliable. No virus can replicate in cells with
adequate intracellular oxygen. This is a fact of
biology, not a theory. Our theory is that the use of
chemical fertilizers has broken the sulfur cycle thus
making the cell membrane impermeable to oxygen. Without
oxygen our cellular metabolism becomes anaerobic by
definition and the result is diseased cells and
degenerative disease.

The sulfur cycle originates in the ocean from the sulfur
vents, which are volcanic magna flows, directly into
salt water. Mineral sulfur is made when this same
volcanic activity occurs into the atmosphere. The
crystal "Organic Sulfur," which is the subject of the
Live Blood Study, is derived from sulfur stored as
lignin in pine trees, a bi-product of the pulp industry
and its chemical name is methysulfonyl-methane.

The Live Blood Study has been researching the ability of
Organic Sulfur to enable intracellular oxygen since
1999. The Study has been impressed that viral entities
including West Nile Virus and common flu viruses appear
to be addressed by sulfur. Viral entities whose symptoms
are "treated" by the medical profession respond to
sulfur and promote cellular regeneration. In the case of
West Nile Virus mosquitoes do not even like the taste of
those who take sulfur both man and beast. With other
disease entities healthy cellular regeneration is
allowed to continue to produce new healthy cells and
stop the disease processes.

Cancer, though not thought of as a virus, follows the
same etiology, and Otto Warburg received a Noble Prize
for proving that cancer is anaerobic in 1931. Cancer is
subject to the same mechanism as viruses. Cellular
regeneration is either healthy or not depending upon
intracellular oxygen. The research of the Study believes
that cellular regeneration is a function of sulfur and
the reason for a lack of sulfur is modern corporate
farming methods with no crop rotation, the use of
chemical fertilizers, and the chemical preservatives
allowed in our foods.

Our soil is the key. Almost 60 years after U.S. Senate
Report 264 (dating from 1936) reported that the soil of
the U.S. was "worn out," The 1992 Earth Summit Report
corroborated and confirmed these earlier findings. The
Earth Summit Report concluded that soils subjected to
chemical fertilizers had become deficient in minerals,
including sulfur. Following ancient, even Biblical
principles of farming, such as allowing the land to rest
and crop rotation, should be given serious attention,
but the modern-day application of chemical fertilizers
is perhaps the most sinister culprit of all. The state
of our soil is unabashedly reflected in the state of our
health. Can we afford to continue to ignore the facts
that have brought us to our current health situation?

Epidemiology, the study of who died and why,
demonstrates that there is a connection between these
farming methods and our increased disease rates. Finland
is an interesting proof. The Finns banned the use of
chemical fertilizers in 1985 when their disease rates
were similar to ours in the US and now they have one
tenth of ours after only 20 years.

Organic Sulfur could be a tool the State could use to
improve the health of the citizens by providing a source
for their missing sulfur. Current medical modalities
including surgery ( liver transplants), certain drug
therapy ( i.e. Vioxx ) and vaccines ( i.e. the link to
Autism ) have demonstrated adverse side effects as well
as death. Organic sulfur has not been reported to harm
anyone or cause any
adverse side effects since it was first described in
China in the 10th century.

The Study's 1100 members have surprised the observers
with their reports
of increased well being and improved heath. Also after
three weeks of taking Organic Sulfur many of the members
have voluntarily ceased taking most all of the drugs
which are advertised directly to the public in the
media. Unless the Study is in error these drugs may be
the lion's share of the money that the County and the
State spends on its health care programs. The drug
companies reported a $200 billion net profit for 2004,
somebody is paying.

Therefore, besides improved health, less pain, and
cellular regeneration for the populace, the State and
the County could decrease the outlay of money to the
pharmaceutical industry. To some it appears that the
drug companies are only interested in making drug
addicts of us all. That is not their intention, they and
doctors are not evil but they seem unconcerned about the
causes of disease. Every disease has a cause. We are
what we eat! And we believe that that which we eat no
longer includes sulfur. When one becomes acquainted with
the Periodic Table of Elements sulfur, selenium and
tellurium appear to be very important for the oxygen we
need

Sulfur is described as the fourth most abundant mineral
in all living organisms. But somewhere along the road to
our health, it seems the scientific, medical, and the
economic communities failed to see the what mineral
deficiencies are doing to us. Even the medical community
is egregiously out of touch with the facts: 620 doctors
were asked about sulfur and they all said that we get
all the sulfur we need in the food we eat. Linus Pauling
said "Mineral deficiencies are the root cause of all
disease" in 1990. ( Provo Herald.)

We in the Study realize that the use of chemical
fertilizers in not going to stop in the near future, so
what can we humans do to get the minerals we need, that
is the issue. We in the Study see this as a primary
health issue for the citizens of the US, and for that
matter the entire world. What we feed our food
determines what we eat. That food is being adversely
effected by what man does to it; both how we grow our
food without the necessary nutrients and minerals and
the chemical additives which are added only to prevent
spoilage, i.e. preservatives for shelf life not for our
improved health. One mortician told me we are
preserving ourselves so effectively that now he uses
much less embalming
fluid.

Man is a fragile race. We are comprised of billion upon
billions of cells which must regenerate in a healthy
manor or we become diseased and possibly die. The
diseases we have and the drugs recommended to treat them
do not address the cellular biology of the body human.
The Live Blood Study believes that making Organic Sulfur
available to those citizens who are less than satisfied
with their current regime could provide some very
interesting solutions to their pain, disabilities,
breathing disorders, viral infections, and over all
general well being.

The Study would suggest doing a parallel study of those
state supported patients for which the medical community
has no more suggestions, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
included. Add to those anyone with Hep C, cancer
patients (especially those undergoing chemotherapy or
who are afraid to go through it again.) Lupus, Chrones,
all allergies, obesity and morbid weight problems
(especially in children.) ADD and ADHD depression,
psoriasis and other skin conditions, cardiovascular
concerns including high blood pressure and stroke,
arthritis, asthma, chronic constipation, pain from
inflammation even pain that requires morphine, lung
dysfunction including emphysema, glaucoma, and
indigestion which is how this researcher became aware of
what sulfur can do.

Sulfur is a mineral that is absolutely necessary for the
health of our cells, and the health of our cells
determines the health of the body human. Any mineral
deficiency can cause disease but a sulfur deficiency the
Study believes is a major cause of many of our disease
entities because of its intimate relation to the oxygen
which allow our cells to regenerate into healthy new
cells.

We regenerate all of cells every seven years, when
healthy.

Patrick McGean
Director Live Blood Study
801-263-9486
19 October 2006

Former FDA
commissioner Crawford to plead guilty after
charged with lying about conflicts of interestTuesday, October 17,
2006 by: Jessica Fraser

Former U.S. Food and Drug Administration
commissioner Lester Crawford is set to plead guilty
today to charges of filing false financial disclosure
forms and conflicts of interest, according to court
papers filed yesterday by the Justice Department.

The government charges that Crawford and
his wife owned stock in several companies that fell
under FDA regulation, and failed to fully disclose that
information as required by federal law. The court papers
also charge that Crawford assured federal ethics
officers that he and his wife had sold stock in those
companies, when they had not.

Crawford's attorney, Barbara Van Gelder, said that under
a plea agreement, her client would not dispute the
government's charges, and would likely face fines and a
possible prison term of up to two years.

"At the end of the day, he owned these stocks and he
will admit he owned them while he was at the FDA and he
will take responsibility for that," Van Gelder said.

The Justice Department found that Crawford and his wife
owned stock in Pepsico Inc., Sysco Corp., Kimberly-Clark
Corp., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other companies
regulated by the FDA. At one point, Crawford -- who
owned at least $140,000 of stock in soda maker Pepsico
and food distributor Sysco -- acted as chairman of an
FDA panel charged with studying the obesity problem.
Crawford's decision on that panel would have affected
both companies.

The court papers also charge that Crawford did not
disclose his income from exercising stock options in
agricultural biotechnology company Embrex Inc., for
which he had been a member of the board of directors.

Crawford -- a food safety expert and veterinarian --
unexpectedly resigned from his position as head of the
FDA in September 2005 without giving reason. He'd
officially held the position for two months, though he
had been acting head of the agency for more than a year.

FDA critic Mike Adams, author of "Grocery Warning,"
calls the FDA a "criminal organization" and claims it
puts pharmaceutical and food industry profits ahead of
public safety. Adams called the charges against Crawford
"yet another serious blow to the illusion of FDA
credibility.

"Crawford's guilty plea now establishes as indisputable
fact what myself and other FDA critics have been saying
for years: The agency is headed by white-collar
criminals who deliberately make regulatory decisions
that are in the best interests of drug companies and
junk food giants, rather than protecting the health of
the public," Adams said.

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Have you heard the latest 'oops, we did
it again' from the pharmaceutical industry?

It has just been revealed that Bayer
failed to disclose a study of their widely used heart
surgery drug, Trasylol, which shows the drug could
increase the risk of death, kidney failure and stroke.
And Bayer's response: it made a “mistake” in not
mentioning the study to the FDA or the advisory panel
deciding the drug's safety for the market.

Bayer's actions have revealed how weak
our drug safety system really is. But there is
hope! There is legislation in Congress that would work
to stop the drug industry from playing games with our
health!

Bayer's actions should be no surprise
to anyone. Only after tens of thousands of people
suffered serious injuries from Vioxx and Paxil did we
find out the drug companies knew about those serious
side effects and delayed getting this information to the
public. The secrecy has to stop; we need to protect your
safety now!

In my last health
alert, I showed you how statins can cause Parkinson’s
disease. Now I’ve got a great way to protect your brain.
It probably can’t overcome the damage done by statins.
But it can help with other factors that lead to
Parkinson’s.

I’ve been touting
curcumin, the yellow pigment in curry, for some time. It
protects the cells of your body and it’s emerging as a
premier anti-inflammatory. Now a new Italian study shows
that curcumin nourished certain brain cells that help
detoxify your brain.

The researchers gave
rats curcumin and studied its effect on brain cells
called astrocytes. These are star-shaped cells that are
critical for protecting the brain. They help make up the
blood-brain barrier and also protect other cells in the
brain from injury. When astrocyte cells are injured or
weakened in any way, they can’t protect your brain as
effectively.

The team of
researchers found that curcumin increased two protective
enzymes. These enzymes spare the astrocytes from free
radical damage, keeping them healthy, and protecting
your brain.

By the way, curcumin
also increases the levels of glutathione, your body’s
leading detoxifier. Why is this important? Because
Parkinson’s has been linked to pesticides, heavy metals,
and other toxins. And one of the best ways to flush
those toxins out of your system is to increase
glutathione.

The best way to get
curcumin in your diet is by eating curry. But you can
also buy it in supplemental form (consider 500 mg twice
daily) at your local health food store.

According to a whistleblower report in the New England
Journal of Medicine, drug maker Eli Lilly & Co.
initiated false reports of a shortage of Xigris (used to
fight blood infections) to boost sales of the drug.

A public-relations firm hired by Eli Lilly spread the
word that the very expensive drug was being "rationed,"
the report says. It also included descriptions of
physicians being "systematically forced" to decide who
would live and who would die.

Designed to fight sepsis, a condition that kills more
than 200,000 Americans annually, Lilly hoped Xigris
would be a blockbuster, with sales of at least a billion
dollars a year. After five years on the market, however,
sales are only $200 million.

According to Dr. Robert Danner, an infectious-disease
expert at the National Institutes of Health, this poor
performance led the company to take unusual steps to
increase its profitability.

Fight for Your Health is a stunning
exposé into the secret world of the FDA, Wall Street,
and drug companies. At stake is the health and
well-being of all Americans. Adverse reactions, even
deaths, are hidden while dangerous drugs are pushed on
Americans, especially children—simply for profit. The
FDA is actively attacking health freedom and seeking to
eliminate natural health options. Arm yourself with
invaluable information that will help you take charge of
your health:

FDA working on behalf of drug
companies

Mind-control through “mental health”

The true Codex story; health option
control

Globalization at the expense of
Americans

Poisoning us with our food and water

Your DNA in government computers

Fight for Your Health documents the scope
and severity of prescription-drug fraud in America. It
explains, for the first time, how Americans are
prescribed billions of dollars' worth of drugs that have
serious health consequences. It exposes the
inappropriate and detrimental uses of bone drugs, brain
drugs, and cholesterol-lowering medication.

Using drugs for prevention and to regulate behavior in
children is a medical disaster, undermining the health
of our nation. Medical doctors, under the influence of
pervasive pharmaceutical marketing, rely on drug-based
care for disease prevention and the treatment of people
with dubious behavioral diagnoses. Our children are
especially at risk: They are being exposed to a national
clinical drug trial--an experiment with their brains
that will have lifelong consequences.

The FDA has put into mothballs its federal mandate to
protect the public. In order to foster drug sales, the
FDA hides important medical data from the public and
from doctors, including the risks of heart attacks,
suicide, seizures, and serious mental-health debility.
Even worse, the FDA has changed sides. They are actively
undermining the rights of citizens to claim damages if
injured by drugs. And they are seeking to remove safety
barriers to drug testing. They are planning to expose
many individuals to unproven drugs, a new form of human
experiment.

President Bush has filled the top positions at the FDA
with major promoters of drug sales. The priority of
these men is to rush unproven drugs to market, for the
financial benefit of Wall Street and Big Pharm.

The FDA is now actively involved in the drug-design
business, using sophisticated software to assist
pharmaceutical companies in drug development.

The FDA is utterly incompetent to monitor the safety of
existing drugs on the market. They ignore the numerous
adverse side effects that are reported from toxic drugs
used for prevention. They are not able to inform the
consumer public of the true risks or possible problems
associated with almost any medication.

An example, detailed in Fight for Your Health, is the
wide-spread use of statins for lowering cholesterol.
These medications are portrayed to the public as safe
and effective, when in fact they are among the most
dangerous and health-deteriorating drugs that exist.
Virtually all adverse side effects of statins, except
severe muscle damage and death, are ignored by the FDA.
Instead, the FDA promotes seriously toxic use of these
these drugs—even for prevention.

At the same time that the FDA is fostering drug
development and drug sales, they are actively working to
suppress natural-health options which hold tremendous
health-care potential, especially for prevention of
serious problems. In fact, the FDA assists international
efforts to ban the use of helpful nutritional options in
America. They continue this effort, even though the
majority of Americans fully support natural-health
options. The FDA has become an aberrant police force,
working against health, rather than protecting us.

In
The China Study, T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., details the
connection between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes
and cancer. The report also examines the source of
nutritional confusion produced by powerful lobbies,
government entities, and opportunistic scientists. The
New York Times has recognized the study
(China-Oxford-Cornell Diet and Health Project) as the
“Grand Prix of epidemiology” and the “most comprehensive
large study ever undertaken of the relationship between
diet and the risk of developing disease.”

Find
out why The China Study is sweeping America. In your
copy you’ll find information that turns the health and
medical world upside down.

A
sampling of the thoroughly researched findings include:

Synthetic chemicals in the environment and in your
food, as problematic as they may be, are not the
main cause of cancer.

The genes that you inherit from your parents are not
the most important factors in determining whether
you fall prey to any of the ten leading causes of
death.

The hope that genetic research will eventually lead
to drug cures for diseases ignores more powerful
solutions that can be employed today.

Obsessively controlling your intake of any one
nutrient, such as carbohydrates, fat, cholesterol or
omega-3 fats, will not result in long-term health.

Drugs and surgery don’t cure the diseases that kill
most Americans.

I
decided to start an in-depth laboratory program that
would investigate the role of nutrition, especially
protein, in the development of cancer. What we found was
shocking. Low-protein diets inhibited the initiation of
cancer by aflatoxin, regardless of how much of the
carcinogen was administered to theses animals. After
cancer initiation was completed, low-protein diets also
dramatically blocked subsequent cancer growth. In other
words, the cancer-producing effects of this highly
carcinogenic chemical were rendered insignificant by a
low-protein diet. In fact, dietary protein proved to
be so powerful in its effect that we could turn on and
off cancer growth simply by changing the levels
consumed.

Furthermore, the amounts of protein being fed were those
that we humans routinely consume. We didn’t use
extraordinary levels, as is so often the case in
carcinogen studies. But that’s not all. We found that
not all proteins had this effect. What protein
consistently and strongly promoted cancer? Casein, which
makes up 87% of cow’s milk protein, promoted all stages
of the cancer process. What type of protein did not
promote cancer, even at high levels of intake? The safe
proteins were from plants, including wheat and soy. As
this picture came into view, it began to challenge and
then to shatter some of my most cherished assumptions.

Why is it called
The China Study?

I
went on to direct the most comprehensive study of diet,
lifestyle and disease ever done with humans in the
history of biomedical research. It was a massive
undertaking jointly arranged through Cornell University,
Oxford University and the Chinese Academy of Preventive
Medicine. The New York Times called it the “Grand Prix
of Epidemiology.” The project surveyed a vast range of
diseases and diet and lifestyle factors in rural China
and, more recently, in Taiwan. More commonly known as
the China Study, this project eventually produced more
than 8,000 statistically significant associations
between various dietary factors and disease!

These findings - the contents of Part II of this book -
show that heart disease, diabetes and obesity can be
reversed by a healthy diet. Other research shows that
various cancers, autoimmune diseases, bone health,
kidney health, vision and brain disorders in old age
(like cognitive dysfunction and Alzheimer's) are
convincingly influenced by diet. Most importantly, the
diet that has time and again been shown to reverse
and/or prevent these diseases is the same whole foods,
plant-based diet that I had found to promote optimal
health in my laboratory research and in the China Study.

The
findings are consistent.

Honey & CinnamonIt's all over the web, and we've
yet to find any misinformation in it...so, we
pass it onto you.

Rumor has it a mixture of
Honey and Cinnamon cures most diseases. However, I'm not so
sure all of these are entirely valid. I've sent a few people
out to debunk these, but no one has gotten back to me. So,
if you CAN debunk any of these, we will publish the
debunking next to the paragraph for which it applies and
give YOU, the debunker, full credit.

If you know that these don't work or you want to
try one, please keep us informed. I'm very skeptical about all of these, since
I've mixed a few of them together, and I cannot believe anyone would continually
drink this stuff. The concoction "really gets old" after a few sips.

So...help us debunk these "cures."

Honey is produced in most
of the countries of the world. Scientists of today also
accept honey as a "Ram Ban" (very effective) medicine
for all kinds of diseases. Honey can be used without any
side effects for any kind of diseases. Today's science
says that even though honey is sweet, if taken in the
right dosage as a medicine, it does not harm diabetic
patients.

Weekly World News, a
magazine in Canada, on its issue dated 17 January, 1995,
has given the following list of diseases that can be
cured by Honey and Cinnamon as researched by western
scientists:

HEART DISEASES: Make a
paste of honey and cinnamon powder, apply on bread,
instead of jelly and jam and eat it regularly for
breakfast. It reduces the cholesterol in the arteries
and saves the patient from heart attack. Also those who
already have had an attack, if they do this process
daily, they are kept miles away from the next attack.
Regular use of the above process relieves loss of breath
and strengthens the heart beat. In America and Canada,
various nursing homes have treated patients successfully
and have found that as you age, the arteries and veins
lose their flexibility and get clogged; honey and
cinnamon revitalize the arteries and veins.

ARTHRITIS: Arthritis
patients may take daily, morning and night, one cup of
hot water with two spoons of honey and one small
teaspoon of cinnamon powder. If taken regularly even
chronic arthritis can be cured (allegedly). In a recent
research conducted at the Copenhagen University, it was
found that when the doctors treated their patients with
a mixture of one tablespoon Honey and half teaspoon
Cinnamon powder before breakfast, they found that within
a week, out of the 200 people so treated, practically 73
patients were totally relieved of pain and within a
month, mostly all the patients who could not walk or
move around because of arthritis started walking without
pain.

BLADDER INFECTIONS: Take
two tablespoons of cinnamon powder and one teaspoon of
honey in a glass of lukewarm water and drink it.It
destroys the germs in the bladder.

TOOTHACHE: Make a paste
of one teaspoon of cinnamon powder and five teaspoons of
honey and apply on the aching tooth. This may be applied
3 times a day till the tooth stops aching.

CHOLESTEROL: Two
tablespoons of honey and three teaspoons of Cinnamon
Powder mixed in 16 ounces of tea water, given to a
cholesterol patient, was found to reduce the level of
cholesterol in the blood by 10% within 2 hours. As
mentioned for arthritic patients, if taken 3 times a
day, any chronic cholesterol is cured. According to
information received in the said journal, pure honey
taken with food daily relieves complaints of
cholesterol.

COLDS: Those suffering
from common or severe colds should take one tablespoon
lukewarm honey with 1/4 spoon cinnamon powder daily for
3 days. This process will cure most chronic cough, cold
and clear the sinuses.
UPSET STOMACH: Honey taken with cinnamon powder cures
stomach ache and also clears stomach ulcers from the
root.

GAS: According to the
studies done in India & Japan, it is revealed that if
honey is taken with cinnamon powder the stomach is
relieved of gas.

IMMUNE SYSTEM: Daily use
of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune
system and protects the body from bacteria and viral
attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various
vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of
honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight
bacteria and viral diseases.

INDIGESTION: Cinnamon
powder sprinkled on two tablespoons of honey taken
before food, relieves acidity and digests the heaviest
of meals.

INFLUENZA: A scientist in
Spain has proved that honey contains a natural
ingredient which kills the influenza germs and saves the
patient from flu.

LONGEVITY: Tea made with
honey and cinnamon powder, when taken regularly, arrests
the ravages of old age. Take 4 spoons of honey, 1 spoon
of cinnamon powder and 3 cups of water and boil to make
like tea. Drink 1/4 cup, 3 to 4 times a day. It keeps
the skin fresh and soft and arrests old age. Life spans
also increases and even a 100 year old, starts
performing the chores of a 20-year-old.

PIMPLES: Three
tablespoons of Honey and one teaspoon of cinnamon powder
paste. Apply this paste on the pimples before sleeping
and wash it next morning with warm water. If done daily
for two weeks, it removes pimples from the root.

SKIN INFECTIONS: Applying
honey and cinnamon powder in equal parts on the affected
parts cures eczema, ringworm and all types of skin
infections.

WEIGHT LOSS: Daily in the
morning 1/2 hour before breakfast on an empty stomach
and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon
powder boiled in one-cup water. If taken regularly it
reduces the weight of even the most obese person. Also,
drinking of this mixture regularly does not allow the
fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may
eat a high calorie diet.

CANCER: Recent research
in Japan and Australia has revealed that advanced cancer
of the stomach and bones have been cured successfully
(allegedly). Patients suffering from these kinds of
cancer should daily take one tablespoon of honey with
one teaspoon of cinnamon powder for one month 3 times a
day.

FATIGUE: Recent studies
have shown that the sugar content of honey is more
helpful rather than being detrimental to the strength of
the body. Senior citizens, who take honey and cinnamon
power in equal parts, are more alert and flexible. Dr.
Milton, who has done research, says that a half
tablespoon honey taken in a glass of water and sprinkled
with cinnamon powder, taken daily after brushing and in
the afternoon at about 3:00 p.m. when the vitality of
the body starts to decrease, increases the vitality of
the body within a week.

BAD BREATH: People of
South America, first thing in the morning gargle with
one teaspoon of honey and cinnamon powder mixed in hot
water, so their breath stays fresh throughout the day.

HEARING LOSS: Daily
morning and night honey and cinnamon powder, taken in
equal parts restore hearing. This is all so they say!

A new study in the Journal of Proteome Research suggests
that a blood test may detect breast cancer at its
earliest stage. The test was able to diagnose 95 percent
of cancers in 345 women. Around 500,000 people succumb
to breast cancer each year and it is crucial to detect
it early.

The new test measures some proteins in order to get a
cancer fingerprint. Existing tests depend on breast
examinations, mammograms and biopsies in order to
diagnose cancer. However by the time it is accurately
diagnosed, it may be too late.

The new test detects very small changes in
concentrations of proteins in the blood. Some proteins
are specifically found in breast tissue, the test
detects these. The researchers suggest that by switching
around proteins, other cancers may be detected as well.

"Our pilot studies show that using blood samples, breast
cancer and several other types of epithelial cancers can
be detected with much better sensitivity and
specificity," said Professor Jasminka Godovac-Zimmermann
of UCL. "This may allow new, less intrusive, safer and
much less expensive approaches for the early diagnosis
of cancer, for distinguishing malignant and benign
cancers, and for monitoring cancer therapy."

Stephen Duffy, Cancer Research UK's professor of
screening said the test looked interesting. "These are
very interesting results which may have far-reaching
implications for diagnosing breast cancer in the long
term," he added. "Further research involving an
independent group of patients and healthy volunteers is
needed to validate these results, and to find out if the
test is equally accurate for diagnosing early breast
cancer as well as advanced disease."

Ultraviolet B (UVB)
Radiation Reduces Risk of 16 Types of Cancer in U.S.One of the studies
mentioned in our articles on UV Light.

A study published this
week in Anticancer Research confirms that solar UVB
irradiance is associated with reduced risk of 16 sites
of cancer, apparently through production of vitamin D.
These cancers include 6 sites of gastrointestinal
cancers, 3 cancers of female sites, 3 urogenital
cancers, 2 types of lymphomas, and 2 upper aerodigestive
tract cancers.

The
analysis examined age-adjusted mortality rate data from
49 states plus the District of Columbia for two periods:
1950-69 and 1970-94. Other cancer risk-modifying factors
were included in the analysis. A proxy indicator of
smoking was associated with risk at 10 cancer sites,
alcohol consumption with 9 sites, urban residence with
7, and Hispanic heritage with 6.

“This study provides important additional support for
the vitamin D/cancer hypothesis” according to William
Grant. This new study shows that the approach used, a
statistical comparison of cancer mortality rates by
state according to several cancer risk factors, is
likely to be reliable since the results for known
factors other than UVB agreed well with the results in
the literature. In addition, the new study replicates
many of the links between higher levels of vitamin D and
lower risk of cancer that were identified in earlier
studies that had less control for risk factors other
than vitamin D or UVB deficiency."

“The
mechanisms whereby vitamin D reduces the risk of cancer
are well known, and include effects on intercellular
adhesion, apoptosis (programmed cellular death), the
inhibition of angiogenesis around tumors, and the
inhibition of metastasis.”

According to co-author Cedric Garland, Dr.P.H.,
“Enhancing vitamin D status appears to be the single
most important single simple thing that people can do to
reduce their risk of cancer, apart from avoiding tobacco
and moderation in intake of alcohol. While solar
ultraviolet B is not always available or convenient for
synthesis of vitamin D and entails a possible small
increase in risk of nonmelanoma skin cancer, vitamin D
supplements are readily available and nontoxic in the
preventive range of 1,000-1,500 IU/day.”

According to William Grant, Ph.D. “Other recent studies
recently found that it takes 1000 to 1500 International
Units (I.U.) of vitamin D per day to reduce the risk of
cancer incidence and death by 30-50%. In the U.S.,
dietary sources provide only 250 to 300 I.U. per day.
People with fair skin living in the sunnier regions of
the country can make 1500 I.U. of vitamin D in about 20
minutes near solar noon with 10-20% of their body
exposed, i.e., arms and back in women and back or chest
in men. Those with darker skin require 2-4 times as much
time or body exposed for the same vitamin D production.
This may help explain why black Americans have higher
cancer incidence and mortality rates than white
Americans, which was described recently in the Journal
of the National Medical Association.”

Cedric Garland added, “Briefly exposing a large enough
area of skin for adequate vitamin D synthesis is more
effective than increasing the amount of time spent in
the sun. Protracted exposures to the sun are
counterproductive after the 20-30 minutes at most when
vitamin D synthesis for the day is complete. People of
all ages should wear a hat whenever spending more than a
few minutes in the sun, and should spend the time
walking or otherwise in motion.”

William Grant added “The public receives a steady
barrage of public service messages to avoid the sun and
wear sunscreens in order to reduce the risk of skin
cancer and melanoma. Unfortunately, such messages do not
mention that these risks are counterbalanced to a
substantial degree by the advantages of producing
vitamin D from solar UVB irradiance. Insufficient UVB
irradiance and vitamin D costs society about 10 times
what excess solar UVB does, and excess UVB irradiance is
not required for optimal vitamin D production.” Cedric
Garland said “vitamin D in the appropriate dose is
giving society new hope in the fight to prevent cancer.”

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Swedish researchers have found that there is a direct
link between the consumption of processed meat and
stomach cancer. Bacon, salami, sausage, hot dogs, ham,
and smoked or cured meat are some examples of processed
meats.

Researchers analyzed 15 studies between 1996 and 2003
containing 4,700 people. They found that consuming 30
extra grams of processed meat every day increased the
risk of stomach cancer by 15 to 38 percent. The study is
published in the "Journal of the National Cancer
Institute."

"Our
results... show very clearly that there is an
association between increased consumption of processed
meat products and stomach cancer," said lead researcher
Susanna Larsson of the Karolinska Institute in
Stockholm. Processed meat contains nitrates that are
added to give a longer shelf life to the products, but
these chemicals may initiate stomach cancer.

"We
hope that further studies will clarify the interaction
between the consumption of processed meats and other
factors, such as dietary factors and the effects of
different bacteria on the incidence of stomach cancer,"
Larsson said.

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This
type of medicine may sound rather unorthodox, but
scientists testing this unusual treatment on six human
patients with inflammatory bowel disease found that it
helped every one of them.

Take
two tablespoons of dirt and call me in the morning. That
may sound like a bit of a stretch, but then again, mud
pies may one day be squeezed into the five food groups.
The hygiene hypothesis is gaining ground, folks, so if
you think your health is worth fighting for, get ready
to fight dirty!

Modern medicine has always held that we get sick because
of something we catch, or something we ate, inhaled, or
were exposed to in some other way.

Of
course, this is the popular germ theory which states
that germs cause disease. Those of us brought up on the
germ theory know to constantly wage war on germs. Kill
everything! Disinfect! Sanitize! Good. Now go wash your
hands.

American industry answered our war cries by inventing at
least 739 bazillion ways to massacre germs using
antibacterial soaps, lotions, cleansers, sprays, toys,
mattresses and even computer screens. Warnings in the
medical literature that these products do nothing to
reduce infection, but only contribute to new and scary
strains of drug-resistant bacteria, have been lost in
the germ war frenzy.

The
hygiene hypothesis is a fairly new school of thought
that turns the fear of germs on its proverbial head. We
should, instead, get friendly with microbes and let them
go up our collective noses, in this approach.

This
view argues that early exposure to a wide variety of
microbes is a good thing, permitting a growing child’s
immune system to develop and build up immune response
“muscle.”

If
the germ theory leads down a white, sterilized hallway,
the hygiene hypothesis seems to lead down a dusty old
dirt road.

Researchers have long noticed an important difference in
children who attend daycare at a very young age, as well
as children who live with many brothers and sisters, or
on a farm. All of them develop less asthma, hay fever,
allergies, eczema, and other atopic diseases than do
other children.

“Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation
of her laws,” wrote Charles Simmons.

But
a lack of exposure to germs is only half the problem,
leaving as it does, one leg of our immune system without
enough to do, while the other leg gets too much
stimulation. This chronically triggers an inappropriate
response of the immune system to produce all the allergy
stuff, such as histamines, mucus floods and
inflammation.

Tragically, several common medical practices seem to be
substantial contributors to this problem. Antibiotics,
antipyretics (fever-lowering drugs), and even some
vaccines have been shown to significantly raise the risk
of asthma and the other atopic disorders.

Autoimmune responses, such as multiple sclerosis,
rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and
even Type I diabetes are on the list of disorders that
may be caused, at least in part, by exposure to common
medical interventions.

A
recent study from Sweden published in the medical
journal Lancet found that children in the families they
studied who avoid antibiotics and vaccinations have
fewer allergies than do other children.

“Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the
window, except that the birds might eat them,” wrote
Martin Fischer.

In
our zeal to treat acute symptoms, we have become
effective at suppressing robust expression of immune
responses to normal childhood illness, including all the
uncomfortable but productive symptoms of a healing
crisis that would otherwise yield permanent immunity.

The
hygiene hypothesis leads to some intriguing, perhaps
shocking conclusions. Do you suppose nature intended all
those kids to get all those colds at daycare and have
all those fevers?

One
might conclude that Mother Nature herself wants us all
to have a bout of chicken pox, the measles, and yes,
even the mumps while we’re still young. In return we get
permanent and non-toxic immunity. We also get to pump up
our immune muscles and promote appropriate immune
responses.

I
have personally observed the scraped knee of a
three-year-old heal just as quickly and well as the knee
of a Harvard-trained medical practitioner with 42 years
of practice under his belt. It comes as no surprise to
me that nature’s plan for our immune systems avoids many
of the pitfalls unintentionally created with manmade
medical interventions.

“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but
they are more deadly in the long run,” wrote Mark Twain.

The
hygiene hypothesis forces us to face an important
question never asked by medicine. Namely, “Which is
preferable, expression, or suppression?” This basic
question needs to be asked of every medical
intervention, given the knowledge that many standard
medical practices may come with a hefty price tag of
chronic health disorders.

Perhaps the current outbreak of mumps in highly
vaccinated adult populations is an opportunity to ask
these kinds of hard questions. It wouldn’t be the first
time we needed to bury accepted standards of medical
care in the compost heap of history after their
underlying theories crumbled to dust.

I
guess everything eventually goes back to the dirt. As
the old saying goes, “Eat right, exercise regularly, die
anyway.” However, I believe that Mark Twain had the last
word about all health opinions that get published,
including those in newspapers: “Be careful about reading
health books. You may die of a misprint.”

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The United States
has one of the highest rates of infant mortality in the
industrialized world, with sub-Saharan African countries
among the worst overall.

The report issued
Tuesday by the Save the Children organization said U.S.
newborn death rates are highest among minorities, even
when mothers have early and equal access to prenatal
care.

The odds of newborn
infants dying, after all other risk factors were taken
into account, were 3.4 times higher in blacks, 1.5 times
higher in Hispanics and 1.9 times higher for races other
than whites.

In the developing
world, about half of newborn deaths are due to
infection, tetanus and diarrhea, the report said. In the
industrialized world, these problems are almost
non-existent and newborn deaths are most likely to
result from babies being born too small or too early.

Of the 125 countries
listed, Sweden ranked first, or safest, followed by
Denmark, Finland, Austria, Germany, Norway, Australia,
Netherlands, Canada, United States and Britain.

The west African
state of Niger is at the bottom, with nine other African
countries filling the 10 last positions.

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CRANKS AND KOOKS: KERRY WON IN '04
... HEAR ONE OF THEM--LARRY DAVID--TELL YOU THE
STONE-COLD EVIDENCE THAT, YEP, GEORGE BUSH STOLE IT IN
2004. AGAIN.
From Armed Madhouse, the new book by Greg Palast
Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Hear Larry David, auteur of HBO's "Curb Your
Enthusiasm," and principal writer of the "Seinfeld"
series reading Palast's new book, Armed Madhouse,
Chapter 4: The Con-Kerry Won at
www.GregPalast.com

Read the excerpt here:

THE CON

Kerry Won. Now Get Over It . . .

...because they're putting '08 in their pocket.
Republicans just seem to have that winning spirit. They
also have caging lists, felons of the future, rotting
ballots, snuffed canaries, and a lock on the votes of
Kissinger-Americans and the undead.

WARNING! There are cranks and kooks and crazies out
there on the Internet who say that George Bush lost the
2004 election, like one titled, "Kerry Won" published on
the TomPaine.com web site two days after the election. I
wrote it.

On November 11, a week after TomPaine.com published it,
I received an e-mail from The New York Times Washington
Bureau. Hot on the investigation of the veracity of the
vote, The Times reporter asked me pointed questions:

Question #1: Are you a "sore loser"?

Question #2: Are you a "conspiracy nut"?

There was no third question. Investigation of the vote
was, for The Times at any rate, complete. The next day,
the paper's thorough analysis of the evidence yielded
this front-page story, "VOTE FRAUD THEORIES, SPREAD BY
BLOGS, ARE QUICKLY BURIED."

As America's self-proclaimed Paper of Record had no
space for the facts, I thought I'd share some with you
here.

"Kerry Won" was not a two-day inquiry à la Times. It was
the latest in a series of investigative reports coming
out of a four-year team examination, begun for BBC
Television's Newsnight, Britain's Guardian papers and
Harper's Magazine, dissecting that greasy sausage called
American electoral democracy.

And, by the way, the answer to Question #1: I didn't
lose, so I'm not sore. This investigation isn't about
John Kerry. As a journalist, I don't give a toss which
rich white kid won the game. But I'm not so blasé that I
don't care about the disappearance of American
democracy. And I really wanted to know how the Bushes
swallowed the sausage.

How'd they do it? Again. And how will they do it in '08?
The answer arrived just after midnight on October 8,
2004, three weeks before the official voting, in a
series of extraordinary e-mails. The e-mails were
intended for the chieftains of the President's
re-election campaign in Washington. Strangely enough,
they were misaddressed and ended up in my mailbox. Such
things happen.

NIGHT OF THE UNCOUNTED:
How to Disappear Three Million Votes

But the e-mails and their technical attachments won't
mean a thing unless you understand some arcane facts
about elections American-style.

First, consider CNN's Ohio exit polls broadcast just
after midnight after the voting ended on Election Day.
They show John Kerry defeated George Bush among women
voters by 53% to 47%. And among men voters, Kerry
defeated Bush 51% to 49%.

So here's your question, class: What third sex put
George Bush over the top in Ohio and gave him the White
House?

Answer: The Uncounted.

In Ohio, there were 153,237 ballots simply thrown away,
more than the Bush "victory" margin. In New Mexico the
uncounted vote was fives times the Bush alleged victory
margin of 5,988. In Iowa, Bush's triumph of 13,498 was
overwhelmed by 36,811 votes rejected. In all, over three
million votes were cast but never counted in the 2004
presidential election. The official number is bad
enough-1,855,827 ballots cast not counted, reported to
the federal government's Election's Assistance
Commission. But the feds are missing data from several
cities and entire states too embarrassed to report the
votes they failed to count. Correcting for the
under-reporting of the undercount, the number of ballots
cast but never counted goes to 3,600,380. And there are
certainly more we couldn't locate to tote up.

Why doesn't your government tell you this? Hey, they do.
It's right there in black-and-white on a U.S. Census
Bureau announcement released seven months after the
election -- in a footnote to the report on voter turn --
out. The Census tabulation of voters voting "differs,"
from ballots tallied by the Clerk of the House of
Representatives for the 2004 presidential race by 3.4
million votes.

This is the hidden presidential count which, excepting
the Census' whispered footnote, has not been reported.

Unfortunately, that's not all. In addition to the 3
million ballots uncounted due to technical "glitches,"
millions more were lost because the voters were
prevented from casting their ballots in the first place.
This group of un-votes includes voters illegally denied
registration or wrongly purged from the registries.

In the voting biz, most of these lost votes are called
"spoilage." Spoilage, not the voters, picked our
president for us.

Joe Stalin, the story goes, said, "It's not the people
who vote that count; it's the people who count the
votes." That may have been true in the old Soviet Union,
but in the U.S.A, the game is much, much subtler: He who
makes sure votes don't get counted decides our winners.

In the lead-up to the 2004 race, millions of Americans
were, not unreasonably, panicked about computer voting
machines, "black boxes," that could flip your vote from
John Kerry to George Bush. Images abounded of an evil
hacker-genius in Dick Cheney's bunker rewriting code and
zapping the totals. But that's not how it went down. The
computer scare was the McGuffin, the fake detail used by
magicians to keep your eye off their hands. The new
black boxes played their role, albeit minor, but the
principal means of the election heist-voiding ballots,
overwhelmingly of the poor and Black-went unexposed,
unreported and most importantly, uncorrected and ready
to roll out on a grander scale in 2008.

I went to sleep election night with the exit polls
showing Kerry ahead in swing states. But between 1:05 am
and 6:41 am the next morning, goblins went to work. By
dawn, the network's exit poll for Ohio showed Kerry dead
even with Bush among women, and down by five percentage
points among men.

What happened? Were thousands of Bush voters locked in
the voting booths, released at 2am, then queried about
their choices? Not quite. The network's polling company
applied a fancy "algorithm," a mathematical magic wand,
to slowly transform the exit polls to match the official
count.

And that's bad. By deliberately contaminating the exit
polls, the networks snuffed the canary that would signal
that something was deeply wrong about the vote count.

Hunting for a Democrat to defend the Twilight Zone
between the exit polls and the "official" polls, media
grabbed on Dick Morris, Bill Clinton's old advisor. An
expert at walking that fine line between minor
criminality and psychopathic ambition, Morris knows
which way his next client's wind blows.

Morris said:

"Exit polls are almost never wrong. So reliable are the
surveys that actually tap voters as they leave the
polling places that they're used as guides to the
relative honesty of elections in Third World Countries.
To screw up one exit poll is unheard of. To miss six of
them is incredible."

His opening was promising, but then he switches into
full Morris:
"It boggles the imagination how pollsters could be that
incompetent and invites speculation that more than
honest error was at play here."

So, Dick, you're telling us there was an evil cabal
among six pollsters, competitors who don't even like
each other, conspiring one dark night to make George
Bush look like a vote thief.

There's another explanation: Kerry won.

We've got the body (the wounded elections), we've got
the bullet holes (the missing votes), now where are the
smoking guns? How does the GOP disappear the vote? And
why do Democratic ballots spoil so much more readily
than Republican ballots? How's it done?

But that little Bill O'Reilly in your head is screaming,
Get over it; let's move on already. What they tested in
2000 and practiced in 2004, they are preparing to roll
out in 2008 big time.

----

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2004 and the program to steal '08 -- from Republican
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and class.

"No one has uncovered more about the Bush Dynasty than
Greg Palast ... and lived to write about it." -
Baltimore Chronicle

Defending
marriage

Bob
Dole - divorced the mother of his child, who had nursed
him through the long recovery from his war wounds.

Newt Gingrich - divorced his
wife who was dying of cancer.

Dick Armey - House Majority
Leader - divorced

Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas -
divorced

Gov. John Engler of Michigan
- divorced

Gov. Pete Wilson of
California - divorced

George Will - divorced

Sen. Lauch Faircloth -
divorced

Rush Limbaugh - Rush and his
current wife Marta have six marriages and four divorces
between them.

Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia -
Barr, not yet 50 years old, has been married three
times. Barr had the audacity to author and push the
"Defense of Marriage Act." The current joke making the
rounds on Capitol Hill is "Bob Barr...WHICH marriage are
you defending?!?

Sen. Alfonse D'Amato of New
York - divorced

Sen. John Warner of Virginia
- divorced (once married to Liz Taylor.)

Gov. George Allen of
Virginia - divorced

Ronald Reagan - divorced the
mother of two of his children to marry Nancy Reagan, who
bore him a daughter only 7 months after the marriage.

So homosexuals are going to
destroy the institution of marriage? Wait a minute, it
seems the Christian Heterosexual Republicans are doing a
fine job without anyone's help.

The Lord
giveth, and the Lord taketh away:

My wife just got under the
wire, signing up for Medicare drug coverage a few days before the May 15
deadline. Her coverage kicked in June 1.

We signed with United
Healthcare, the contractor for the AARP plan. We did this even knowing that
United is under scrutiny because its president backdated some stock options to
gain an illegal tax advantage for himself.

Since June 1, when the plan
kicked in, she has had three prescriptions filled. On one, there was a $5
co-pay, and on the second, a $28 co-pay. This would put us about even for the
month, even calculating in the $28 a month she pays for the plan.

Today, though, she filled a
third prescription. The COST (not co-pay) was $35. I inquired why of the
pharmacist, since that was full retail price, and we thought it was covered
under the plan for a $5 co-pay. Surprise! United Health has dropped this
product from its coverage, without notice to us. The pharmacist told us a lot
of the various drug plans have dropped a lot of drugs from coverage.

For the balance of 2006, the
insurance companies cannot raise their rates. But by dropping coverage, they
accomplish the same thing. They can't lose, but we can. And you can bet the
cost of coverage will go up at the end of 2006.

When you want to pass new laws
against bank robbery, you don't call in the bank robbers to ask what kind of
laws they'd like. But the Bush administration called in the lobbyists for the
insurance companies to write a Medicare drugs plan. Just as they called in the
oil companies for an energy plan -- and look what happened to oil prices. They
called in Wall Street for advice on privatizing Social Security.

Oh well, at least Bush is now
gonna try to outlaw flag burning. That'll take some of the starch out of the
Chinese, who make all our flags now. ~ Pappy.

If Your Fingerprints Aren't Down
You're Not Coming InUK Government wants to
control where citizens go to get drunk.
Will people start caring more about the
liberty crushing surveillance society
now?

The British
government has announced that it wishes
to send nationwide a previously
localized program of
mandatory fingerprint scanners
at the entrance of every pub and club in
major UK cities. Under such rules If you
want to have a drink in the trendiest
places in the UK you will have to be
fingerprinted.

As usual this is
being sold as a way to reduce alcohol
related crime and weed out
troublemakers. We're all suspects now,
we're all possible criminals and we all
need to be scanned and catalogued in
order to save civilized society. The
young hoodlums are taking over
and we must all be considered dangerous
in order to stop them.

The move to
introduce the scanners is being sold to
club and bar owners with the promise
that they can stay open longer if they
implement it. If they refuse that nice
little earner they will simply be shut
down as new licenses stipulate that a
landlord who doesn't install fingerprint
security and fails to show a
"considerable" reduction in
alcohol-related violence, will be put on
report by the police and have their
licenses revoked.

What's more,
reports detail the fact that all clubs
and bars that have this forced upon
them, or choose to willingly use it,
will be hooked up to a centralized
database in order to easily share the
biometric information. Access to this
database will also be granted to the
police and the government.

As a citizen of
the UK I have not known a time when
civil liberties have been under attack
from so many angles at the same time. In
the name of the war on crime, the war on
terror, the war on drugs, the war on
binge drinking, the war on anything the
government can't be bothered to attempt
to get to the real cause of, we have to
relinquish our privacy.

Big Brother Is
watching... And listening and shouting
and scanning and taking your
fingerprints and swabbing your DNA. Lets
take a snapshot of a typical day in
Britain should all these things be fully
implemented.

You get up to go
to work and walking down your
residential street you are picked up by
multiple cameras within
minutes of leaving your house. Before
you board the tube or the train you may
have to relent to going through the
high-tech body screener for
detecting would-be terrorists. Place
your hands above your head and wait for
the machine to produce a naked picture
of you on a screen.

If your 're lucky
enough not to have to go through one of
these you will certainly be picked up by
the the
face scanning cameras which
are programmed to sound an alarm when
they spot suspicious behaviour, such as
waiting somewhere for a prolonged period
of time or just walking in a suspicious
way.

Should you drop
some litter or act out of turn the
cameras may even
start shouting at you in
order to publicly humiliate you and let
everyone else around you know what
you've done. This way you might be
shamed into never stepping out of line
in that way again.

You swipe your
electronic travel card over the reader
and a unit of travel credit is deducted.
This sends a signal to the central
database
reporting your whereabouts.
You could still use cash but the
fare has been raised so
high for cash users that it seems
ludicrous to opt for that.

Those who are
lucky enough to work out of the big
cities or those who drive to work will
have their movements and
personal behaviour monitored
by traffic cameras all over the country.
They will also be tracked at all times
by the
black box locator within
their vehicles.

After work you
may go for a drink. Once you have had
your fingerprints scanned to enter you
may also have to undergo a
DNA swab test for drug use.
If you refuse you are recorded as
suspicious and may even be arrested at
which point your DNA will be
forcibly taken anyway.

If you do manage
to get in the pub for a drink you will
be able to pay for it much more quickly
and easily if you have an implanted
microchip. Just
wave your arm over a reader
and it will pick up the chip's signal
and deduct a beverage credit
accordingly. A chip may also eliminate
the need for an ID card, travel card,
medical card and the like. No need to
carry cumbersome wallets or handbags
anymore!

Perhaps you will
not have worked hard enough this week to
earn enough beverage credits though. Oh
well never mind time to go home. When
you get back remember to put out the
trash. Make sure the bag is not too
heavy though or more
refuse credits will be
deducted from your allowance. And don't
forget to recycle or you could get some
jail time.

In the UK we are
the most observed population outside of
North Korea. Britain is the surveillance
bench mark, the rest of the Western
world is a close second. As
Henry Porter Commented in
last week's London Observer, It's time
to wake up to what we have become and
stop allowing limits to be put on our
liberty. It's now or never.

The merchant replied, "Well, if you continue down that
ridge, in about two miles you will come to a restaurant.
They have water."

The man left, and two hours later came back, looking
more parched than ever.

He told the merchant, "Your brother wouldn't let me in
without a tie!"

***

A
husband and wife are on the 9th green when suddenly the
wife collapses from a heart attack. "Help me dear," she
groans to her husband. The husband runs off to find a
doctor, and soon returns. He picks up his putter, and
lines up his shot.

His wife raises her head off the green and stares at
him. "I'm DYING over here and you're PUTTING?"

"Don't worry dear," says the husband. "I found a doctor
on the second hole and he's coming to help you!"

"How long will it take?" she asks gasps.

"No time at all." says her husband, putting the ball.
"Everyone agreed to let him play through."

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